As you know, when installing Windows operating systems (client or server) you need a valid product key to enable to corresponding Windows Edition, also known as perpetual licensing. For Windows Server, the editions covered by such product key are either Standard or Datacenter. Well, that was true until Windows Server 2025 was released, as now […]
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As you know, Windows devices with OneDrive client allows your end-users to redirect their personal folders (Documents, Desktop….) to OneDrive. This allows leveraging some security capabilities provided by SharePoint Online/OneDrive, such as versioning or ability to recover complete OneDrive space in case of corruption or encryption by malware. This also replace the ‘old school’ roaming
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The wait is over, the latest release of Windows 11 is now available for download and deployment. With this release, this also marks the end of support for Windows 10. You still have few months anyway as the official end of support for Windows 10 is October 14th, 2025 after this date your Windows 10
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As you know, with Intune you can control when Windows Updates are being deployed using Update Rings profile. Well, starting October 2024, Windows 11 22H2 or later will start getting automatically any quality updates (aka Patch Tuesday updates) during the Out Of the Box Experience during the enrollment process. This means starting October, the enrollment
If you manage Windows/macOS devices fleet you already know that it is recommended to enable disk encryption on these devices (either through GPO or Intune) with recovery information saved in Entra ID. Then you also already know that administrators (global administrator, cloud device administrator, helpdesk administrator, Intune administrator or security administrator or reader) can read
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As you know, we running workloads in the cloud cost management is an important part of your governance. In Azure, you have multiple ways to manage your spending (running) cost; one of them is setting up a spending limit at your subscription level (such as with developer subscription [aka Visual Studio subscription]). Well, if you
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As you probably already know, a new version of Windows 11 – 23H2 – was coming. Well, good news as this 23H2 version is now available. You can download it from your Visual Studio subscription (https://my.visualstudio.com/), using the Windows Media Creation Tool (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11) or even by using Intune Feature Update policy. NOTE I’m
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As you may know, with Windows Update you have ‘mandatory’ updates (aka the monthly, cumulative updates) and optional updates, which usually covers some specific Windows components. Deploying the optional updates has been a major pain over the past years as they are optional, which means they were not always deployed unless end-user (when allowed) where
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If you are an IT professional, you probably already know the Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) to manage the local administrator account password. Well, good news as with the April 2023 updates, LAPS is now directly integrated with Windows; no more need to deploy the local LAPS agent. It is now integrated with: Windows 1x
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About 3 weeks after releasing Windows 11 22H2, Microsoft has now released the new major update for Windows 10: Windows 10 22H2 or Windows 10 2022 Update. You can get it from your Visual Studio Subscription (https://my.visualstudio.com/downloads), Download Center (using the Media Creation tool – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) or your Volume License portal (https://www.microsoft.com/vlsc), plus
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